Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Importance of Wallpole's Private Wealth
Cox chapter 45 quotes from Ito the utterly incredible story that wallpole spent 60,000 pounds out of his private fortune at the general election of 1734. Cox: An expenditure of this magnitude would have been not profusion but insanity nor is it at all likely that he was in a position to lay his hands upon so large an amount on his private credit. The truth seems to be that wallpole like both the pits was inexact and careless about money profusion was a natural element in a large loose jovial character like his to incessantly preoccupied with business power government and high affairs of state. He expended in building adding and improving at Houghton the sum of
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